Raimund Hoghe

YOUNG PEOPLE, OLD VOICES

• Venue: Samuel Beckett Theatre
• Dates: Tuesday 18 & Wednesday 19 May
• Nationality: Germany
• Time: Tuesday 18 - 7pm & Wednesday 19 - 7.30pm
• Duration: 3 hours (including interval)
• Tickets: €22 (Full Price) / €18 (Concession) / €17 (Early Bird)

"Hoghe is a rare sort of dancer...his presence – indelibly gentle and profoundly graceful – casts a strange spell. He changes the way a room breathes." Gia Kourlas, Time Out New York

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An accumulation of simple, yet ritualised movement sequences builds an increasingly poignant contrast between Hoghe and 12 young cast members, from Ireland and abroad, who join him on stage for Young People, Old Voices. Hoghe confronts elements of their lives with ‘old voices’ – juxtaposing songs by singers such as Jacques Brel, Billie Holiday and Etta James nearing the end of their careers with the boisterous, every-day activities of the young cast members.

As the collage of youthful playing around builds, Hoghe’s solemn performance quality and physicality become ever more striking. A duet between Hoghe and frequent co-performer Lorenzo de Brabandere to The Rite of Spring provides an atmospheric, energetic and musical counterpoint to the displays of youthful abandonment in the work’s other sections.

Raimund Hoghe is one of the most influential choreographers working in Europe today. Since first becoming involved with dance as dramaturg to Pina Bausch, Hoghe has created numerous choreographies to critical acclaim. Following the presentation of his powerful Swan Lake, 4 Acts, during IDFI 2006, we are thrilled to present this return engagement in which local performers will appear.

Direction and choreography: Raimund Hoghe
Artistic collaboration: Luca Giacomo Schulte

Young People, Old Voices is a co-production of: Raimund Hoghe Company; Kaaitheater (Brussels); Bruges 2002 – Cultural Capital of Europe; Springdance/Works (Utrecht); Montpellier Danse (Montpellier); Pumpenhaus (Münster). / In collaboration with Cultuurcentrum Brugge. / With the support of Ministerium für Wohnen und Städtebau, Kultur und Sport des Landes Nordrhein-Westfalen; De Vlaamse Gemeenschap - NRW in Flandern 2002.

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